A Guide To The World’s Largest Goth Festival
Where we talk about goth under the Stasi and the greatest goth fest today. House searches could be conducted without a warrant (often when the…
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Siouxsie Sioux at 60: more than a monochrome goth-pop priestess
60 years? Well… “What I really resent about people sticking labels on you,” said Siouxsie Sioux in 2004, “is that it cuts off the other…
World Goth Day: Shedding some light on the darkness of a much-maligned subculture
It was a time when fashion favoured “glamazon” WAGs with fake boobs, coiffed hair and tanned skin. But I was fascinated by a scene where…
Kingston After Dark: Cosmic clamor
On my 2015 year end list for a popular metal site Metalriot.com I included a little Boston trio named InAeona. Their Prosthetic Records release Force…
Read Nottingham Goth Bands’ USA and Mexico Tour Diary
“In July 2016 I was asked by US promoter Jesus Terminal if I wanted to reform my old band Midnight Configuration and to play two…
Life Before Alice: Andrew Eldritch, Leeds & The Birth of The Sisters of Mercy
‘Alice’ transformed him from Andy Taylor – an “unprepossessing youth”, unemployed, and a college drop-out twice over – into the mesmerising, near mythical Andrew Eldritch….
Bauhaus Drummer Recalls Raucous Iggy Pop Encounter
When goth-rock firebrands Bauhaus arrived in New York City on their first U.S. tour in 1980, they unwittingly met a trio of their heroes –…
An interpreter of pain: Andrew Dominik tells Nick Cave’s story in ‘One More Time With Feeling’
The new album by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds stems from a tragic event the Australian singer-songwriter will likely never stop experiencing. On July…
Tattoo artist Kat Von D creates vegan makeup line
Created by Katherine Von Drachenberg, one of the most respected and sought-after tattoo artists in LA, the Kat Von D Beauty Collection is a cruelty-free…
Festival review: Bloodstock Open Air 2016
Between the 10th and 14th August, the usually tranquil and unexciting locale of Derbyshire’s Catton Park was transformed into the heaviest and most brutal metal…